The Aaron Academy Royals prep basketball team was able to hold on for a 68-55 victory over host Hendersonville Christian Academy on Thursday in the opening round of the 2009 Chic-fil-A Classic.

UNLV guards Oscar Bellfield, left, and Steve Jones put the pressure on Holy Cross guard R.J. Evans during the first half of Wednesday's game at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Holy Cross quarterback Dominic Randolph, the active FCS leader in total offense, looks to rack up the yards when the Crusaders play at Villanova Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA playoffs.

You would have to think that this time of year in the Football Championship Subdivision that Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 1970s hit "Takin' Care Of Business" would be in high rotation on the iPods of teams near the top of the top-25. Taking care of business is exact what a number of teams did over the weekend as the regular season inched a little ...

Delroy James scored 21 points and had eight rebounds to lead Rhode Island to a 92-75 victory over Holy Cross on Sunday.

Old Dominion quarterback Thomas DeMarco said after Saturday's 42-35 victory over VMI that he intends to spend the next week "in an ice bath." ODU's sophomore quarterback, who transferred in from a junior college in California last winter, finished the season with 21 touchdown passes and 17 rushing touchdowns as he accounted for 230 points.

Tyler Smith scored on a 9-yard run with 1:40 left and Bucknell upset Patriot League champion Holy Cross 23-17 on Saturday.

Aric Van Weelden hit a 3-pointer as time expired to lift Loyola of Chicago to a 76-73 victory over Holy Cross on Friday night.

Acclaimed journalist and author John Feinstein, who also happens to be a voter in the Associated Press men's college basketball poll, always reserves the No.

Carl Jones scored 18 points and hit two key free throws to lift Saint Joseph's to a 69-67 win over Holy Cross on Tuesday night.

The 2009-10 Patriot League Men's Basketball season tips off this weekend, with seven of the League's eight teams in action on Friday night.

Jonathan Baldwin made two exceptional catches that allowed No. 8 Pittsburgh to open up an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter, and the Panthers needed nearly every point, holding off visiting Notre Dame , 27-22, on Saturday.

Jeremy Lin scored 24 points and four other Harvard players scored in double figures to beat Holy Cross 87-77 in the season opener for both teams on Friday night.

It's another boffo morning in the dusty, cramped football offices on the second floor of the Holy Cross Field House - a building that served as an airplane hangar in Davisville, R.I., during World War II.

Lehigh's BJ Benning sacks Fordham quarterback John Skelton in last year's meeting between the two teams at Goodman Stadium.

Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore gave the Crusaders quite the rousing pep talk the night before last week's win at Fordham.

After 22 years as a top-level college assistant, Sean Kearney is a head man for the first time at Holy Cross.

It has come down to this, the four perennial favorites in Patriot League football: Lafayette and Holy Cross, unbeaten in league games; Colgate and Lehigh, each with one loss.

Lehigh University coach Andy Coen claims game is a must win if team hopes to continue competing for league title.

When Aaron Jones arrived on campus at the College of Holy Cross, it didn't take him very long to figure out his role on the football team.